Jeffrey L. Edleson

JEFFREY EDLESON is dean and the Harry and Riva Specht Chair in Publicly Supported Social Services in the School of Social Welfare. He was a professor of social work at the University of Minnesota School of Social Work for 29 years before joining Berkeley in 2012 and the founding director of the Minnesota Center Against Violence and Abuse.

A leading expert in domestic violence, Dr. Edleson's current research examines the impact of adult violence on children and how social systems respond to these children. His work also focuses on international parental abduction in cases of domestic violence and the evaluation of interventions and policies on family violence. His body of publications comprises more than 130 articles and 12 books.

Dr. Edleson is currently serving as the President of the California Association of Deans and Directors (CADD) of Social Work Programs. His other recent appointments include the National Institute of Justice Scientific Review Panel on Family Violence and Violence Against Women as well as the National Advisory Committee on Violence Against Women. He is an elected fellow of the American Academy of Social Work and Social Welfare.

2016 Edleson named one of a dozen highest impact scholars in social work in a new study by Hodge, Krener & Vaughn (2016) appearing in Research on Social Work Practice.

2015 Society for Social Work Research Book Award: Battered Women, Their Children, and International Law: The Unintended Consequences of the Hague Child Abduction Convention, co-authored with Taryn Lindhorst

Gewirtz, A. & Edleson, J.L. (2007). Young children’s exposure to adult domestic violence: Towards a risk and resilience framework for research and intervention. Journal of Family Violence, 22, 151-163.

Mbilinyi, L.F., Edleson, J.L., Beeman, S.K. & Hagemeister, A.K. (2007). What happens to children when their mothers are battered? Results from a four city anonymous telephone survey. Journal of Family Violence, 22, 309-317.

Edleson, J.L. (2006). Emerging responses to children exposed to domestic violence. Harrisburg, PA: VAWnet, a project of the National Resource Center on Domestic Violence/Pennsylvania Coalition Against Domestic Violence.

Edleson, J.L. (2006). A response system for children exposed to domestic violence: Public policy in support of best practices. In Feerick, M. & Silverman, G.B. (Eds.). Children Exposed to Violence (pp. 191-211). Baltimore, MD: Brookes.

Mbilinyi, L., Hagemeister, A.K., Edleson, J.L. & Beeman, S.K. (2000). Social work response to the co-occurrence of child maltreatment and woman abuse in families. In N.T. Tan & E. Envall (Eds.). Social work around the world (pp. 152-164). Switzerland: International Federation of Social Workers.

Peled, E. & Edleson, J.L. (1995). Process and outcome in small groups for children of battered women. In E. Peled, P.G. Jaffe, and J.L. Edleson (Eds.). Ending the cycle of violence: Community responses to children of battered women. Newbury Park, CA: SAGE.

Ending a bad personal relationship is extremely complicated when the relationship is transnational. Women whose partners are abusive often turn to family members for assistance. When this means leaving one nation for another with one’s children, Hague Convention (1980) international treaties come into play. All too often, the mother is charged with child abduction and forced to return the children to an abusive father. Drawing on a series of true-life stories, the authors reveal important dimensions of domestic law, interpretations of children’s best interests, and the legal rationales required to ensure safety for battered women and their children across international boundaries.

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